Serotonin II (2019)

yeule is the manifested reflection of Nat Ćmiel. An ongoing project since 2012, yeule’s music is as ethereal as it dynamic, reflective of their nomadic upbringing. Though they grew up and attended school in Singapore for most of their life, their family traveled often, developing emotional connections with places far from home that left their searching, unmoored, putting forth a creation that is in constant metamorphosis.

Obsessed with tinkering and discovery, they began building their own synths. There is a complex, intuitive, and deeply personal nature to their music making. With a launchpad, keyboard and microphone they morphs their original cinematic classical compositions into electronica. More clues to their process can be found in their other mediums. As a practicing visual artist, their paintings emanate their deep connection to the process of mark making, both visually and sonically. their first full length, Serotonin II, is the fully realized result of this process, resonating with their “mutable self-expression.” they describes this as “the stifling psychological haze turned into perfume.” Beautiful tracks like the introductory “Your Shadow,” carry the listener on a cloud--before pitch and distortion break through the mist. By the time reality (the technology of the moment) pierces beyond the angelic quality - you are met with the peaceful opening notes of “Poison Arrow.” And so it goes, a push and pull, a beautiful flux. Death, rebirth, and most mysteriously, the places in between these two hard realities are explored in depth.

Visually, yeule’s world is dreamy and breaches into the unreal, with the name yeule initially being inspired by Final Fantasy XIII-2, where a character dies in a thousand timelines because of a break in the fabric of time itself. they is born again eternally, and always meets the same

fate. In this way the artist relates when they feels herself destroying the older parts of herself, reinventing, born again from memories both real and fabricated. When discussing the artist yeule and the album Serotonin II, it is perhaps best to take the artist at their own word; “When I came up with the yeule project, they acted as a vessel for me to archive important points in my life. Each song released in its respective era reflects that part of myself, that’s most probably gone by the time you read this.” yeule is forever trying to chip away at their own identity so that they might absorb something different, foreign, the unknown force to which they is drawn.

"“It's difficult for my mind to stay in one place. I can go back to revisit the person I was in my dreams. I see them as multiple people. Sometimes they talk to me, but I've cut most of them off because they start screaming in my ear.” - yeule, 2019"

Tracks

 * 1) Your Shadow 01:18
 * 2) Poison Arrow 04:20
 * 3) Eva 03:34
 * 4) See You Space Cowboy 01:15
 * 5) Pixel Affection 03:39
 * 6) Nuclear War Post IV 0:59
 * 7) Pocky Boy 04:01
 * 8) Pretty Bones 04:33
 * 9) Reverie 04:44
 * 10) Blue Butterfly 03:53
 * 11) An Angel Held Me Like A Child 04:22
 * 12) Veil of Darkness 04:54